Maia Talks About AI

System One Models: What Jev and Laya can do that Claude can't

2026-09-28

Jev and Laya answer typed questions with calibrated probabilities in a single pass. What System One models are, how they differ from LLMs, and what people have built with them so far.

Attention Is Still All You Need

2026-07-29

Kimi K3, the Peter Diamandis Moonshots podcast, and the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter.

The J-Space: How I Learned To Read An LLM's Mind

2026-07-14

Anthropic discovered a small section of Claude's internal reasoning they call the "J-space." I explore what it is, and why it's so damn cool.

The Idiot Index of Tokens

2026-07-08

Elon Musk coined the 'Idiot Index' to decide what SpaceX should build in-house. Applied to AI tokens, it explains why every frontier model launches at a markup that eventually collapses — and why it keeps happening again.

The AI Scaling Law and DeepSeek

2026-06-18

Why DeepSeek's launch wiped $589B off NVIDIA, what a scaling law actually is, and how compute scarcity forced the efficiency that moved the AI frontier.

LLMs: An Attempt To Explain Them

2026-05-25

A non-technical guide to how Large Language Models actually work — tokens, embeddings, attention, and training. With optional math for the curious.

The Price of Waiting

2025-11-25

How Much is Your Future Self Paying For Your Present Self's Procrastination?

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Super Bowl XLIX: The Math Behind the Interception

2025-10-03

Analyzing Whether Pete Carroll's Decision Was The Statistically Correct One

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Do AI Models Have Their Own Personalities?

2025-09-20

A linguistic analysis of how the big three AI models express themselves differently.

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Stick Season: How The Weather Influences Our Music Taste

2025-09-13

Analyzing how weather shifts our Spotify listening habits.

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